A study by Canterbury University shows businesses have withstood the 7-point-one-magnitude Canterbury earthquake well.
An international study looking at the Canterbury earthquakes is attracting loud criticism from New Zealand scientists.
A photograph of a quilt on display in the Canterbury Quakes exhibition at the Canterbury Museum. The quilt was created by members of the public who sent squares to The Breeze radio station in Auckland to be part of the 'Quilt for Christchurch'.
A study of employees affected by the Canterbury earthquakes has found they're more likely to have jobs - and get better pay - than people in similar roles in other parts of the country.
This paper explores the scope of small-scale radio to create an auditory geography of place. It focuses on the short term art radio project The Stadium Broadcast, which was staged in November 2014 in an earthquake-damaged sports stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. Thousands of buildings and homes in Christchurch have been demolished since the Februrary 22, 2011 earthquake, and while Lancaster Park sports stadium is still standing, it has been unused since that date and its future remains uncertain. The Stadium Broadcast constructed a radio memorial to the Park’s 130 year history through archival recordings, the memories of local people, observation of its current state, and a performed site-specificity. The Stadium Broadcast reflected on the spatiality of radio sounds and transmissions, memory, post-disaster transitionality, and the im-permanence of place.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking east from Manchester Street. Worcester Street on the right".
Local independent radio stations in Christchurch, New Zealand, had their operations severely disrupted by major earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011. This article examines the experiences of three radio stations that were shut out of their central city premises by the cordon drawn around the city after the 22 February quake. One of the stations continued broadcasting automatically, while the others were unable to fully get back on air for several weeks afterwards. All of the stations had to manage access to workspaces, the emotional needs of staff and volunteers, the technical ability to broadcast, and the need to adapt content appropriately when back on air. For the locally based radio managers decisions had to be made about the future of the stations in a time of significant emotional, physical, and geological upheaval. The article explores how these radio stations were disrupted by the earthquake, and how they returned to air through new combinations and interconnections of people, workspace, technology, content and transmission.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street looking across Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Latimer Square and IRD building (centre)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street looking across where the TVNZ building was".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street - where the Civic centre was".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street, Worcester Street and Gloucester Street".
A video of an interview with Corporal Pani Bell about his work guarding cordons at the edge of the Christchurch central city red zone. Bell talks about the progress of the Christchurch rebuild, the shrinking of the red zone, the implosion of the Radio Network House on Worcester Street, and the temporary offices which have been built for the cordon guards.
A short video-documentary featuring four Christchurch locals who reflect on the destruction of the city's CBD, and how it has changed what they value in a city. Produced with funding from NZ on Air.
A photograph of people painting wooden pallets, to be used for the Lyttelton Pentanque Club.
A PDF copy of pages 168-169 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Lyttelton Petanque Club'. Photos: Gap Filler
A photograph of bricks stacked to spell out the word 'Lyttelton'. Behind the letters, plant pots have been laid out to form a temporary garden.
A photograph of Coralie Winn standing next to a Lyttelton resident at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view from Latimer Square, looking across the demolition site of AMI House towards the Marque Hotel/Pacific Tower".
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch Central City. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central city blocks bounded by Colombo Street, Hereford Street, Cashel Street and High Street".
A video showing customers at the Z Curletts Road petrol station being 'compliment bombed' by All Right? on 17th of December 2013. The video depicts 'All Right FM' (a fake radio station), setting up at Z and surprising customers with compliments as they filled up with petrol. Dancing 'All Righties' and All Right? staff members including Ciaran Fox emerge from the store, providing the customers with coffee, flowers and free petrol.
A photograph of a musician performing at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Worcester Street from Latimer Square to the Christ Church Cathedral".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from north east to south west across the CBD".
A photograph of people watching a musician perform at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.
Caption reads: "I lived in London all through the Blitz, you get used to these things. Living here after the earthquakes didn’t bother me. I had a small battery operated radio and the neighbour lent me her generator. Initially I used it to run the fridge but after a while I couldn’t get it started. I don’t want to move, to be quite honest. There’s nothing that will be able to replace the life I built here."
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The view from the top of Alice in Videoland".
The worst of the exodus from Christchurch after last year's earthquakes is over, according to a group which studies population trends.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "CBD. Looking north along Manchester Street".